In an extensive interview with The New York Times published on Saturday morning, Fetterman opened up about the state of the presidential race in his key battleground state, referring to voter support for Trump as "astonishing," and even suggesting that Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's endorsement of the former president is "going to really matter":

There’s a difference between not understanding, but also acknowledging that it exists. And anybody who spends time driving around, and you can see the intensity. It’s astonishing. I was doing an event in Indiana [Pa.] County. Very, very red. And there was a superstore of Trump stuff, and it was a hundred feet long.

[There were] dozens of T-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and all kinds of, I mean, it’s like, 'Where does this all come from?' It’s the kind of thing that has taken on its own life. And it’s like something very special exists there. And that doesn’t mean that I admire it. It’s just — it’s real.

Admire it or not, the often mercurial Democrat has the honesty to admit what he sees. And what he sees is Pennsylvania voters enthusiastically supporting Donald Trump like no presidential candidate in recent state history. //

Fetterman said he was "alarmed" when Musk began showing up on the campaign trail for Trump, and added he's a "bigger star than Trump" in "some sense." //

OrphanedRepublican
5 hours ago
I think Elon Musk is a big "star" for doing more to restore free speech than any politician.

It wasnt me OrphanedRepublican
5 hours ago
My hero this season is Scott Presler, @thepersistence.

He has been working signing up the Amish. 220,000 Amish went through the challenges of getting their first State ID's and then registering to vote.

It is difficult to poll people without telephones 📞. They had to get dispensation to allow for photographs on their ID's.